We grow up in a toxic and deeply confusing culture. When you get older you realise you can’t impose ownership over another person, you either accept them as they are or you move on. It’s easy to torture yourself when your young, youth and egotism usually go together, but if you don’t wise up fast life will beat the egotism out of you anyway.
mazdak
joined 4 years ago
I know this will sound patronising, but have you read Engels ‘Socialism: Scientific and Utopian’ and Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution’. If not, these would basically answer your implicit question as to why we can’t just wish a perfect society into existence.
“Authoritarian”, like so many other liberal concepts, is an idea that - while not completely without reality - is designed to obfuscate how power really operates. For example, non-authoritarian states have freedom of the press. But that press is owned by and will only give the point of view of the Bourgeoisie. The point of Communism is to put power into the hands of the proletariat rather than the parasitic Bourgeois.
in terms of the ‘strength’ of US soldiers, they’re regarded by other militaries as being big, roided up morons that get gassed out ridiculously fast and are useless for anything that requires endurance type fitness